Brawl Ridiculous
Swordfighting in Shakespeare's Plays
Charles Edelman(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 13. February 1992
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7190-3507-4 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of the Companion Library is to provide students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama with a fuller sense of its background and context. The series includes volumes of a variety of kinds. Small collections of plays, by a single author or concered with a single theme and edited in accordance with the principles of textual modernisation of the Revels Plays, offer a wider range of drama than the main series can include. Together with editions of masques, pageants, and the non-dramatic work of Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights, these volumes make it possible, within the overall Revels enterprise, to examine the achievement of the major dramatists from a broader perspective. Other volumes provide a fuller context for the plays of the period by offering new collections of documentary evidence on Elizabethan theatrical conditions and on the performance of plays during that period and later. A third aim of the series is to offer modern critical interpretation, in the form of collections of essays or of monographs, of the dramatic achievement of the English Renaissance.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3507-4 (9780719035074)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Fencers in the playhouse; stage combat before Shakespeare; the actor's arms and armour; Elizabethan neo-medievalism; "Henry VI, Part 1"; the Wars of the Roses - "Henry VI, Part 2", "Henry VI, Part 3" and "Richard III"; "King John"; The Henry V plays; the Sieges of Troy and Corioles; pre-Norman Britain - "King Lear", "Cymbeline" and "Macbeth"; rapier and dagger - "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet".